Canadian Actor Detained By ICE Speaks Out On ‘Inhumane’ Circumstances – The Boston Courier

Canadian actor and entrepreneur Jasmine Mooney is talking out about her detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after making an attempt to enter California from Mexico earlier this month.

Mooney, a Vancouver native identified for her function in 2009’s “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love,” now runs the wellness model Holy! Water. She was touring from Vancouver to the place she works in Los Angeles when a U.S. border officer on the Vancouver airport knowledgeable her that her three-year work visa had been revoked.

Searching for to resume her journey authorization, Mooney then tried to enter the U.S. by means of the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego, the place she initially obtained her visa, however was detained on March 3.

She was held for 3 nights at San Diego’s Otay Mesa Detention Middle, the place she described alarming situations.

“I was put in a cell and had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, just an aluminum foil wrap over my body like a dead body for two and a half days,” Mooney instructed San Diego’s ABC affiliate, KGTV.

She was later transferred to Arizona’s San Luis Regional Detention Middle with 30 different ladies, all shackled all through their journey.

“We were up for 24 hours wrapped in chains,” she instructed KGTV from detention, including, “I’ve never in my life seen anything so inhumane.”

HuffPost has reached out to ICE and the Division of Homeland Safety for remark.

Mooney’s case comes amid the Trump administration’s escalating mass deportation efforts and rising tensions between the U.S. and Canada.

British Columbia Premier David Eby instructed CityNews Vancouver he has urged Canada’s federal authorities to intervene however fears Mooney’s detention will additional pressure relations with the U.S.

“The harm this does to the U.S. economy — through impacted tourism, business relationships, and skilled workers unable to obtain visas — is reckless,” Eby stated. “This woman should be brought back to Canada as quickly as possible.”